"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequite…" The self-help movement tends to "help-itself" to nearly everything these days, and pilfering words and phrases from the truly great is not uncommon. Take Michail Gorbachov, who is known by the statement: "If not now, then when?/If not us, then who...

(from http://www.the-size-issue.blogspot.com)%5Bupdated to include critique of development in south africa] Big is well, Bigger –Independent's Empire – The Sheer Magnanimity of it all. IN THE climate of a negotiated settlement, and under the benevolent regime of Mandela's presidency, there were f...

IF ANYBODY deserves to talk about his own oppression, it is Malegapura Makgoba, however the question remains to what degree individuals have constitutionally protected freedom to express their views about race in this country. It is one thing to entertain an informed debate about the "crime again...

When Charles Darwin propogated his Origin of the Species and theories of evolution, he caused a stir in polite, should one say, Victorian society? In fact a lot of the negative response to the idea that we are all descended from apes, came from wealthy members of society who were offended by the...

The Cape Times' Subaltern Studies Note: This is part of the Liberal Nazi's thread, a copy has been sent to the newspaper concerned.(from http://www.the-size-issue.blogspot.com) The Cape Times' Subaltern Studies Patrick Laurence's pathetic attempt to exhonerate the nazi sympathiser Van Wyk Louw, i...

Before Size Became an Issue from http://wwww.mediaflack.blogspot.com SHORTLY after the election in 1994, South Africa joined the Commonwealth and in return for various guarantees, most notably the Sunset Clauses negotiated by SACP leader Joe Slovo that protected white interests, the wholesale dis...